"Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early
translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek
Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by
the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to
appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception."-The Encyclopedia
Americana (1942), Vol. XIV, p. 81.

The following chart has a few instances where Bible words are manipulated to
support the Hell-Fire doctrine. There are of course alot more instances where
Sheol and Hades are rendered.

Abbreviations:

A.O.D. = Abode of the Dead

R.O.D. = Realm of the Dead

W.O.D. = World of the Dead

R.O.D. = Realm of the Dead

P.O.D. = Place of the Dead

P.O.T. = Pit of Torture

S.O.D. = State of the Dead

N.W. = Nether World

D.U.C. = Dark Underground Caves

N = New

S = Standard

A = American

I = International

L = Living

E = English

M = Modern

B = Bible

V = Version

T = Translation

W = World

C = Contemporary

Bible

Luke 16:23

Acts 2:31

2Peter 2:4

Matthew 5:22

Mark 9:43

Psalms 6:5

Psalms 16:10

Matthew 7:13

N.W.T.

HADES

HADES

TARTARUS

GEHENNA

GEHENNA

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

King James

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

Grave

HELL

Destruction

NKJV

Hades

Hades

HELL

HELL

HELL

Grave

Sheol

Destruction

L.B.

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

Omit

Grave

HELL

A.S.V.

HADES

HADES

HELL

HELL

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

ASV mg

TARTARUS

GEHENNA

GEHENNA

T.E.V.

HADES

Grave

HELL

HELL

HELL

Omit

Grave

HELL

NASB

HADES

HADES

HELL

HELL

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

CEV

HELL

Grave

HELL

HELL

HELL

Omit

Grave

Destruction

R.S.V

HADES

HADES

HELL

HELL

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

RSVmg

TARTARUS

GEHENNA

GEHENNA

N.I.V.

HELL

Grave

HELL

HELL

HELL

Grave

Grave

Destruction

NEB

Hades

Death

HELL

HELL

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Perdition

NRSV

Hades

Hades

HELL

HELL

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

N.A.B.

AOD

NW

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

Sheol

Sheol

Damnation

MLB

Hades

ROD

Hell

Hell

Hell

Grave

ROD

Destruction

Young

Hades

Hades

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

Sheol

Sheol

Destruction

Deaf

POD

POD

HELL

HELL

HELL

POD

POD

HELL

Darby

Hades

Hades

Pit

Judgement

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

Emph Diag

Hades

Hades

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

N/A

N/A

Destruction

Phillips

POD

Hades

HELL

Destruction

Rubbish Heap

N/A

N/A

Disaster

Conc- ordant

En- tombed

Unseen

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

N/A

N/A

Destruction

A.T.

Hades

Death

Tartarus

Pit

Pit

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

Rother
ham

Hades

Hades

Lowest Hades

Gehenna

Gehenna

Hades

Hades

Destruction

Douay

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

Destruction

Beck

HELL

Grave

HELL

Hellfire

HELL

Grave

Grave

Destruction

Amplified B

Hades ROD

Hades

HELL

Gehenna
HELL

Gehenna HELL

SHEOL
SOD

SHEOL
POD

Destruction

Webster

HELL

HELL

HELL

Hellfire

HELL

Grave

HELL

Destruction

Lamsa

SHEOL

Grave

HELL

Hellfire

Gehenna

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

Jeru-
salem B

Hades

Hades

D.U.C.

Hellfire

HELL

Sheol

Sheol

Perdition

Schon
field

Hades

HELL

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

N/A

N/A

Destruction

R.E.B.

Hades

Death

HELL

Hellfire

HELL

SHEOL

SHEOL

Destruction

Bying
ton

W.O.D

ROD

Inferno

HELL

HELL

World Below

R.O.D

Perdition

Wuest

Unseen World

Unseen World

Tartarus

HELL

HELL

N/A

N/A

Misery

Williams

Hades

Hades

Tartarus

P.I.T.

Pit

N/A

N/A

Destruction

Wey
mouth

Hades

Unseen World

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

N/A

N/A

Ruin

Moffatt

Hades

Grave

Tartarus

Gehenna

Gehenna

Death's Realm

Grave

Destruction

B. Basic
E.

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

HELL

Under world

Under world

Destruction

What is Gehenna?
Catholic periodical Commonweal:
"The final place of punishment, evidently, is Gehenna, the Valley of
Hinno[m], which at one time had been a place where human sacrifice was offered
to pagan gods, but in biblical times had already become the city dump, a refuse
heap on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Here the stench and smoke and fire were a
constant reminder to the inhabitants of what happened to things that had served
their purpose-they were destroyed."
Simply put, Gehenna is a garbage dump-See Phillips
"Jewish Views of the Afterlife," by Dr. Simcah Paull Raphael (1994).
Any doctrine of eternal torment or suffering in the afterlife depends on the
doctrine of soul immortality. According to Dr. Raphael, this doctrine did not
develop until "the apocryphal period," and was "a radically new
idea that did not exist in biblical times." (p. 83)

Further, it is only "with the First Book of Enoch [that] another new
conception enters Jewish postmortem philosophy -- the notion of Gehenna as a
place of eternal damnation," thus sometime between the 3rd and 2nd
centuries BCE. (p. 88) It is with the apocryphal book of Enoch that
"tours of hell," describing with vivid detail the torments and
punishments of the underworld, begin. Interestingly, for some time into the
Christian century and beyond, Jewish scholars argued over whether the torments
of Gehenna were temporary and purgative, or eternal. (pp. 140-149)

What is Tartarus?
Their being cast into "Tartarus" refers to their being debased, cut
off from God's favor and all enlightenment. This is evident from the fact that
the expression 'throwing into Tartarus' in the original Greek is a verb. So it
refers to an act of debasement and not to a literal place. The idea conveyed is
similar to the English word "debase," which uses the noun
"base" but does not in itself suggest the existence of a literal base.
The Bible here uses symbolic language that the Greeks would understand with
Homer's Iliad. See Jude 6.

What is Hades and Sheol?
As we see from the above, Hades and Sheol are simply the grave. That is why the
Rotherham Bible says, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy
might>, for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in
hades, whither thou art going." Eccl 9:10